The holidays hold endless potential for trauma, most of it inflicted by people who sincerely want the best, and only the best, for us.

The term “the chronicity of obesity” has been brought up, and “chronic” is not a word we want to hear associated with any of our physical problems.

Do your habits serve you? If not, out with them! Continuing lifestyle intervention is not just for people who need to be fixed, but for everybody all the time.

There’s mounting evidence that with or without surgery or GLP-1 drugs, continuing lifestyle modification is the only road to ultimate victory.

The question is whether the seemingly miraculous new weight-loss drugs are enough, in and of themselves, to permanently and meaningfully change people’s lives.

The program of lifestyle intervention that comes along with bariatric surgery or GLP-1 drugs is a “forever” kind of thing.

In breaking news, Pfizer decided to halt the development of the twice-daily version of its experimental weight-loss pill due to serious side effects.

The debate centers on whether treating obesity as a chronic disease means patients should remain on these drugs long-term or if they can eventually stop.

Many people already regard semaglutide as The Answer to obesity, and there is a new wrinkle in the narrative.

Some experts lean into the idea that some people’s brains just have “different wiring” which is responsible for various brain disorders, including addiction.

Death and drinking are two more areas that interact with GLP-1 drugs and their cousins. But failing to treat obesity can also lead to suicide.

A discouraging number of lawsuits involving the new weight-loss drugs are currently underway, with potentially thousands more waiting in the wings.

A book on gaming addiction examines the moral, social, and emotional ramifications of a certain genre of electronic games.

To lose weight and keep it off, one has to make lifestyle interventions become the lifestyle, and to accomplish that is a lot more difficult than it sounds.

Can the GLP-1 drugs cure obesity once and for all, and can they possibly do so in the absence of continuing lifestyle intervention?

Lifestyle medicine is definitely not an afterthought or an inconsequential footnote to treatment. All the six types of intervention are important.

Now is a good time to look into how continuing lifestyle intervention pairs up with surgical intervention.

Some people benefit from help for the rest of their lives, and there is nothing wrong with that. The need to manage substance abuse is continuing and ongoing.

One of the murkier areas of addiction theory is how it relates to the basic biological drives inherent in an organism. Let’s take a look.

Often, success depends on the person being prepared to jump in there with a positive displacement behavior to take the heat off.

It’s time to get on board with the idea that obesity is just another chronic noncommunicable disease, and people should have a choice in what to do about it.

No conscientious medical professional should plunge right in by suggesting that you lose a few pounds. Here’s why.

With COVID-19, the disease is caused by a particular virus, and that’s an epidemic. But with obesity, the old multi-factorialism comes into play.

The new weight-loss meds do not treat the root causes of obesity, just like asthma drugs don’t treat air quality and pain relievers don’t prevent injury.

Dr. Yoni Freedhoff proposes that the idea of holding patients entirely responsible for managing their own weight loss is unrealistic.

Today, almost every aspect of the culture, in almost every corner of the world, tells us to eat eat eat.

In weight loss for health, two things are clear: Long-term sustainability is the prevention of relapse, and relapse avoidance is long-term viability.

Research shows that intensive lifestyle intervention, followed by tirzepatide, has about the same effect as the first year following a sleeve gastrectomy.

To put it bluntly, weight loss drugs don’t work unless the patient is also involved in some aspect of what the drug makers define as intervention.

A universal treatment for addiction may be feasible. The displacement mechanism might serve as the basis for such a unified theory of addiction.